Did The Prophet Muhammad work miracles? Can you
give examples?
The information prophet Muhammad gave about the
past
Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, gave lots of
information about past peoples and events
- History is an important branch of knowledge. It is not a science like
physics or biology. It mostly depends on documents that have remained of
the past. Although we can have knowledge of the past and past events by
means of documents, it is quite often very difficult to penetrate into the
facts behind those events. We can hardly know the intentions of historical
‘actors’ or ‘actresses’ and the real motives behind events. In order to be
able to judge rightly about persons and events, the documents we have
should be reliable. Nevertheless, it is quite possible that personal
inclinations and interests, prejudices, and different other motives may
have a part of their own in documents, and, worse, documents may have been
distorted. For example, if the Qur’an had not been sent down to our
Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, we could not have had
true knowledge about the Israelite Prophets and especially the Prophet
Jesus, and the original identity of Christianity and Judaism. The Old and
New Testaments have been so frequently and badly distorted and corrupted
that it is impossible to open a way through them to historical truths.
- The Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, gave lots of
information about past peoples and events. Much of this information is in
the Qur’an. As well as the main points in the histories of many past
peoples and places like the ‘Ad, Thamud, Iram, Sodom and Gomorra, and
ancient Egypt, and the peoples of Noah, Abraham and Shu‘ayb, we can also
find in the Qur’an at least the general outlines of the history of the
Israelite people from the beginning to the time of Jesus, particularly
including the time of the Prophets Moses, David and Solomon, upon them be
peace. It is highly interesting that much of this information is in the
Qur’anic chapters which were revealed in the Makkan period of Muhammad’s
Prophethood, during which he had contact with neither Christians nor Jews.
When the Prophet emigrated to Madina, Jewish and Christian scholars asked
him many questions about certain topics in the Torah and Gospels and since
they received from him convincing answers, they could not object to any of
them.
Neither the Qur’an nor the books of Tradition have been
changed the least over time and none of the information the Prophet gave
about the past has ever been contradicted
- Some of the information which the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace
and blessings, gave about the past is found in the books of Tradition like
Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih al-Muslim, Sunan al-Tirmidhi, and others.
Neither the Qur’an nor the books of Tradition have been changed the least
over time and none of the information the Prophet gave about the past has
ever been contradicted. Rather, much of it has been affirmed the rest will
also be affirmed through future investigations and excavations. This is an
absolute, undeniable proof of Muhammad’s Prophethood.
Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, did not
only give information about past events and peoples, but he also analyzed
them with their causes and results
- The Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace and blessings, did not only
give information about past events and peoples, but he also analyzed them
with their causes and results. Thus, the historical accounts of the
Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, are of the kind that they
presented laws of history and the broad psychological, social and economic
principles concerning human individual and collective life. In addition,
these accounts are masterpieces of literary style and eloquence, such that
it is impossible to produce a like of them.
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